Re: flexfax: random "MODEM WRITE ERROR: errno 5"

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Giulio wrote:


> Linux 2.0.33, Hylafax4.0pl1, USR sportster28800 external, send-only
> environment.

Note: USR sucks, for many reasons.

> Randomly Hylafax fails to send a fax because it cannot communicate well with
> the modem, then (without modifying anything) I resend the same fax with the
> same sendfax command and the fax is sent ok.
> faxstat -dl reports "Unable to configure the modem".

It sounds like when you use the modem for data, it may be left in a
weird state that the fax software cannot properly re-initialize. This
is normally handled by faxgetty monitoring the line and
re-initializing the modem after you are done with it.

Are you running faxgetty? Have you checked out my HylaFAX notes for
RedHat Linux at http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/, or the new
RPM binaries at ftp://ftp.tpc.int/pub/hylafax/ ?

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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